Whenever I hear the word ‘Catalonia’ it reminds me of Puyol.

Once, when he was still captain of the Barcelona soccer team with his long shaggy hair, he gave a speech on the side of the field after winning a match. He spoke in Catalan, not Spanish. Carles Puyol Saforcada, born in La Pobla de Segur in Catalonia, northern Spain, seems to want to emphasize his pride in his home territory. But not always. Last year, in a television advertisement